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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 115

3 Years' Gaol for Perverts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 7

Two men were sent to gaol for three years by Judge Brereton yesterday for offences with males. Michael Robbins, 23,…

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Gaol For Offence In Asylum

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Friday. — An attendant at Mont Park Mental Hospital was sent to gaol for two years by Judge…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 8

Judge Brereton heard six undefended petitions in the Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday…

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Police Raid Sydney Club, Restaurant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.— Vice Squad police to-night raided the Black Tu[?]r Restaurant in George-street, Sydney, and the…

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Exhibit Put Pep Into Court Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Court officials, police and spectators alike sneezed continually…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 8

SOON SERVED. — Anthony Busby, 32, was sentenced to the rising of the Court for having used indecent language in…

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Hotel Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 3

A thief entered a bedroom at the Grand Junction Hotel, Maitland, at the weekend and stole a…

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Fined £20 For Stealing Rings

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 1

In Newcastle Court to-day a young married woman was fined £20 by Mr. See, S.M., on a charge…

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Killara Murder Inquest Opens Tomorrow

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Tomorrow the City Coroner will open an inquiry into the death of 42-year-old Mrs. Leopoldine Hacker, who was found bashed and strangled in her palatial Killara home on Dec. 14, 1951…

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Police Probe Hotel Death

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police are investigating the death of a 27-year-old Queensland woman at a King's Cross…

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Quick Police Work Recovers Car

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police last night, arrested two men and recovered a Rolls Royce car about 10 minutes after the…

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Maitland Court (Before Mr. P. R. Wood, S.m.) Speeding

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 3

Kenneth Bainbridge, of Cessnock, was fined £3 8s with 12s costs on a charge of exceeding the speed limit in Regent St…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, (S.m) Drove Under Influence

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 3

Jack Hoppitt, 26, airman, was fined £20 when he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving a car in Fullerton Cove Rd…

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Man, Woman Charged With Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police have charged a 28-year-old labourer and a 19-year-old coloured woman with the…

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Woman Fined For Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 4

Iris Joan Roberts, 23, home duties, was fined £20 in Newcastle Court yesterday for having stolen two diamond rings,…

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Council Charged On Promises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 3

Lake Macquarie Shire Council had broken many promises to Highfields Progress Association in the past two years,…

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Theft of Road Safety Lamps

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 5

People who took safety lamps from Lambton Rd. evidently failed to realise the dangerous consequences…

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Protection for Tokyo Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 1

TOKYO, July 14, A.A.P. Router.—Bulletproof coats will be issued to police on anti-riot duty…

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"Schooners At Police Station"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 9

A youth, arrested for riding a motor bike while under the influence, claimed he had had "four…

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Police Seek Aero Club Badges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 2

Maitland police are seeking the cooperation of parents in Maitland area to recover about 110 Maitland Aero Club…

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